I’m excited to announce that Server Fault will be hosting a one day educational conference for system administrators and other network operations professionals. This conference will be supported by HighScalability.com and Server Fault. Co-located with Stack Overflow’s DevDays event on the West Coast of the US, this conference will take place the day after DevDays wraps.

The topic this year will focus on techniques of high scalability. We plan to focus on tactical scalability; many companies don’t have the needs of Facebook or Google, but many of the problems and techniques still apply to most people involved in IT. The techniques to scale your infrastructure, and your ability to manage it apply to environments with less servers. We are going to try to get speakers from some of the big name companies in terms of scalability, but we will focus on talks that involve scalability issues that attendees will be able to apply in their own environments. ( More on this idea in this blog post.)

But we need your help naming this conference! We want to make sure it sounds like a conference for system administrators and "dev ops". For reference, the url will be nameofthisconference.serverfault.com

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I think I have to grudgingly vote for this one...
– Ward♦May 17 '11 at 20:25

Sounds more like a reliability theme than a scale theme, though.
– Evan AndersonMay 17 '11 at 20:27

@Evan True, but you need scalability to keep up with ever-increasing traffic. Besides, I don't think overfitting the name to this year's theme is a good idea. The name might be reused in the future.
– xmm0May 17 '11 at 20:30

you can use a fake html tag (ex <fake>) as filler in Answers.
– Chris SMay 17 '11 at 20:34

Well, suuuure, if you want people to actually know what we're there for. But I don't like people knowing why I'm loitering in a hotel lobby, as it usually gets the cops called on me. So more obfuscation please.
– HolocrypticMay 17 '11 at 21:05

I though HASIC was somewhat obscure, and as a bonus, a pronounceable word.
– Chris SMay 17 '11 at 21:06

At least I took out the obnoxious heading style that some people have used!
– Ward♦May 17 '11 at 20:53

Reminds me of a teenage pop group, a-la Glee (Don't judge me, my wife watches it and we only have one TV)
– Mark Henderson♦May 18 '11 at 1:43

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@Mark You're in a room full of sysadmins. You're being judged regardless. That admission just makes it all the sweeter.
– HolocrypticMay 18 '11 at 1:55

@Holo - I've learned not to judge. Not after some of the things I've seen in people's inboxes when cleaning them out after they've hit their limits and they've asked me to purge their old messages.
– Mark Henderson♦May 18 '11 at 2:08

Since this conference will be co-located to the DevDays conference and this conference happens immediately after DevDays, using a similar name will leverage the popularity of the larger conference, and will show that these two communities are related.